Michael Hall: Ubuntu 12.04 is for App Developers
Ubuntu 12.04, the Precise Pangolin, is scheduled to be released in a little over a week. This is a very exciting release for us, not only is it an LTS release with 5 years of support, but it also...
View ArticleDaniel Holbach: What new development contributors have to say
One class of new contributors has always been successful: self-starters who knew what they wanted to do, where to get involved, with possibly some already existing experience or knowledge. For others...
View ArticleLaunchpad News: Setting up commercial projects quickly
Setting up a commercial project in Launchpad has gotten easier. You can now quickly register a proprietary project and enable private bugs. You can create private teams and private personal package...
View ArticleFabián Rodríguez: Trisquel 5.5 is here – loaded with Freedom and that...
Trisquel GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution using a free version of the Linux kernel as distributed by the Linux-libre project. The main goals of the project are the production of a fully free software...
View ArticleDustin Kirkland: Thinking of ditching an iPhone for an Android? Do it!
One of my esteemed colleagues, at Gazzang, our lead Sales Engineer Robert Linden asked me a great question via email this week. As I wrote my response to him, I realized that I've composed similar...
View ArticleElizabeth Krumbach: 12.04 Presentation for Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG)...
Last night, as announced here and mentioned here, Grant Bowman and I did a presentation for the Bay Area Linux Users Group (BALUG) on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). When I arrived a gentleman I’d...
View ArticleLaura Czajkowski: Time flies when you’re busy having fun working and organising
It’s been two months since I joined Canonical on the Launchpad team and it’s been amazing! Each week is so different and I’m still learning. Fortunately the team are very patient and helpful which is...
View ArticleJono Bacon: The Importance Of Application Developers To Ubuntu
For many years now we have been building a comprehensive Ubuntu contributor community. Across our many different sub-communities such as Packagers, Translators, LoCo Teams, Forums, AskUbuntu,...
View ArticleBryan Quigley: IPv6 Comments..
I just noticed that I had my first comment by someone using IPv6 (they used a cell phone network). I expect IPv6 adoption to jump after worldipv6launch.org. I’m hopeful that comcast will get me on...
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Berlin: Typobau: Ubuntu Arabic Ausstellung/Exhibition
Some of original sketches for Ubuntu Arabic are about to go on display in Berlin! We’ve talked before about the work done by Rayan Abdullah on drawing and designing the original calligraphy behind the...
View ArticleMaia Grotepass: Pangolin Release parties - we have 2 - any more?
We have 2 release parties so far. One in Cape Town and one in Pretoria.Cape Town : Friday 27 May 10-13:00 Shuttleworth lab UCT - LoCo DetailPretoria: Saturday 5 May 10-13:30 Karoo Land and Cattle in...
View ArticleMaia Grotepass: Poster for Pangolin Release Party
A quick Poster for the Pangolin release parties. This is the web version. Print poster at spreadubuntuWeb Poster at spreadubuntu
View ArticleCanonical Design Team: Watch out for Ubuntu! The E-Pebble smartwatch
In the year 2000 IBM showed off the WatchPad, a computer on your wrist, but one perhaps ahead of its time and still needing a little bit of design-love. Of course, we love highlighting beautiful design...
View ArticleRaphaël Hertzog: People behind Debian: Samuel Thibault, working on...
Samuel Thibault is a French guy like me, but it took years until we met. He tends to keep a low profile, even though he’s doing lots of good work that deserves to be mentioned. He focuses on improving...
View ArticleMythbuntu: Looking for testers for Unity MythTV scope
The Mythbuntu team would like to announce unity-scope-mythtv, a scope for searching and playing back MythTV content from Unity. We're currently looking for people to test and provide...
View ArticleLubuntu Blog: RC1 is here
Okay, it has landed. We have the first Release Candidate (thanks to a board comm by Phill Whiteside). Check it out and, as he said, adopt one at QA. They are the alternates series, available from here....
View ArticleRobbie Williamson: OpenStack in Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS
With the release of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS quickly approaching, the Ubuntu Server Team has been working extremely hard on ensuring OpenStack Essex will be of high quality and tightly integrated into...
View ArticleDavid Wonderly: Kubuntu: Moving Forward
As the buzz continues with all of the changes happening to Kubuntu, I wanted to sit down a moment and give a clear update as to what is going on. This is to help update the community as large with the...
View ArticleStephen Michael Kellat: Collaboration in the podcast production sphere
The bold adventure is trying to use Launchpad for collaboration across the Ohio LoCo for producing The Burning Circle. The podcast serves as a communications medium for the Ohio LoCo and, in keeping...
View ArticleHollman Enciso: Solucionando Problemas de Conexión Entre equipos de Red
En estos días ando trabajando en un esquema de backups con Bacula, ahora mismo ando en pruebas, mediciones, estadísticas y aprendiendo todo esto de la configuración... mis primeras pruebas en local han...
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